By Peggy Ployhar Many parents who homeschool children with special educational needs jump into homeschooling without much preparation. Unfortunately many times school situations, health conditions, or other factors must...
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The Importance of Family Traditions
By Debbi L. White Establishing annual family traditions builds security in children. It makes memories but does more than that. It creates a family culture that helps formulate its identity,...
Am I Doing Enough?
By Tracy Criswell It’s a question that has plagued me since starting back with homeschooling our four children: “Am I doing enough?” This summer our family has dealt with three...
Walking By Faith When You Are Scared to Death
By Debbi L. White I was lying on my bed next to my young daughter trying to get her to go to sleep without awaking her younger sister. My pastor...
An Interview with Cheryl Swope, M.Ed, SPED Homeschool Board Vice-Chair
Interview provided by Cheryl Swope, M.Ed.Interviewer: Brian Phillips, CiRCE Institute Author of Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child, Cheryl Swope is an advocate of classical Christian education for...
Sparking A Child’s Heart to Shine for God
By Cheryl Swope, M.Ed In the book Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child, I share how my two children, despite their significant special needs, benefited from the Christian education...
Free or Inexpensive Outdoor Learning Activities
By Amy Vickrey, MSE With summer comes thoughts of outdoor activities and fun. For those that live in states where there is snow and ice for many months out of...
Hands and Feet of Christ for Special Needs Families
By Jennifer Cullimore, The Therapy Mama I love being with my children, and as a single, homeschooling mama with no family around I am literally with my kids 24/7. However,...
Integrity: Step 1 in Cultivating a Child’s Heart for Instruction
By Peggy Ployhar In my last article in this series, I stated, “Instilling truth into a child’s heart depends on how prepared his/her heart is to receive truth.” Therefore,...
Writing, Reading, and Other Homeschooling Essentials
By Cheryl Swope, M.Ed “Ever since the dawn of time, man has needed to work.” Thus began my eleven-year-old son’s thinking paper. The topic: why he should have been cleaning...
